Garry Harley

SOLITUDE NO.8

Archival Pigment Ink on Paper (Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Metallic)

36″ x 30″

2021

Periods of rapid change force choices we were not expecting and can therefore, be very stressful. This series is devoted to my choice, during the COVID period, of choosing solitude as opportunity rather than isolation and doom. I choose a search for elegance and refinement of optical dynamic and not darkness, tension, anger, or despair. My choice of seeing this period as a period of solitude, a certain joie de vivre has been, in-part, expressed in this series, by using my interest in developing images with optical tension within the composition and the use of transparent and subtle colors.

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